Archive for January, 2013
Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users
January 9th, 2013See also: How Unique – and Trackable – Is Your Browser? Software Can Identify You from Your Browsing Habits The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity Via: SC Magazine: Up to 80 percent of certain anonymous underground forum users can be identified using linguistics, researchers say. The techniques compare user posts to track them across forums […]
Minimum of 40 Children Paralyzed After New Meningitis Vaccine
January 9th, 2013Via: Vactruth: On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, located in northern Chad, Africa. According to the newspaper La Voix, out of five hundred children who received the new meningitis vaccine MenAfriVac, at least 40 of them between the ages of 7 and 18 have become paralyzed. Those children […]
FPSRussia Business Partner Found Dead – Gunshot Wound to Head
January 8th, 2013Via: Guns.com: Business partner of FPSRussia, the popular Youtuber known for getting his hands on the latest and greatest guns and gear, was found dead Thursday evening in Carnesville, Georgia. Franklin County Sheriff Stevie Thomas told local media that 32-year-old Keith Ratliff died of a single gunshot wound to the head and that his body […]
Top Email Terms Used by Corporate Fraudsters Published by FBI
January 8th, 2013Via: ComputerWorld: The top fraud words and phrases in email conversations: Cover up Write off Illegal Failed investment Nobody will find out Grey area They owe it to me Do not volunteer information Not ethical Off the books
Putin Preps Russian Navy for Biggest Exercise Since the Soviet Union
January 8th, 2013Via: Wired: The Russian navy is about to stage its largest war exercise in a long time — possibly the largest since before the breakup of the Soviet Union. It’s a chance for President Vladimir Putin to show off his military might, of course. But the exercise may also be a subtle warning to the […]
Tide Detergent Now Used as Ghetto Currency
January 8th, 2013Via: New York Magazine: It turned out the detergent wasn’t being used as an ingredient in some new recipe for getting high, but instead to buy drugs themselves. Tide bottles have become ad hoc street currency, with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10 worth of weed or crack cocaine. On certain […]
One Hundred Billion Planets Just in Our Galaxy
January 8th, 2013Via: Slate: For example, you can use some statistics to extrapolate how many planets there must be in our galaxy. A new study has done just that, and the number they get is stunning: they calculate there may be a hundred billion planets in the Milky Way, with 17 billion of them the size of […]
Ten Banks Agree to Pay $8.5 Billion for Foreclosure Abuse
January 7th, 2013Via: AP: Ten major banks and mortgage companies agreed Monday to pay $8.5 billion to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes. The banks, which include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, will pay billions to homeowners to end a review […]
Unwitting Sensors: How DoD is Exploiting Social Media
January 7th, 2013Via: Defense News: On any given day, 400 million short messages are typed or thumbed onto Twitter, and that’s just a fraction of the total communications sent through a social media universe that includes Facebook, Google+, chat rooms, bulletin boards and many other electronic forums. The messages are as diverse as all the conversations in […]
Police Search for Prescription Drugs as Man Spends Final Moments with Deceased Wife
January 7th, 2013Via: Deseret News: A man says Vernal police disrupted an intimate moment of mourning with his deceased wife of 58 years when they searched his house for her prescription medication without a warrant within minutes of her death. Barbara Alice Mahaffey died of colon cancer in her bedroom last May. Ben D. Mahaffey, 80, said […]
